Nail art is my life. And before I mastered some of the more complicated looks, I leaned hard on a few easy nail art techniques that looked much more complicated to pull off than they actually were.

Black-and-white illustrations in old medical textbooks have a very distinct style. The smooth shading effects show as much of the texture of a tissue as you need to see to be able to understand the ...

One of the easiest and most impactful ways to update a wall is to paint it with a faux painting technique. And you can take ...

Forensic art experts just got a little more competition. Scientists at UCLA and the National Gallery of Art have developed a new technique for analyzing ancient paintings that promises to reveal not ...

Zhu Wei, “Ink and Wash Research Lecture Series (unfinished)” (2015), ink and color pigment on paper (click to enlarge) Gao Qian’s painting “Hua Jian Ji No. 2” (2014) is superbly executed in ink and ...

Darger's story grew increasingly complex as he improved his art technique. The third clip associated with the "In the Realms of the Unreal": The Artist and Society lesson plan sees Henry Darger's ...

Sixteenth-century Venetian painters have been regarded as “colorists” since their own time. The phrase “Venetian palette” is used today by art historians to describe the colors used by Renaissance ...

The years between 1925 and 1975 in the United States marked a period of pioneering progress and expansion in the field of art conservation: museums established conservation departments and analytical ...